Brother Trew

Brother Trew was an Anglo-Saxon Catholic monk from Cumberland. In 878, he delivered a letter of prophecy to King Alfred the Great of Wessex at his court in Winchester, informing him that Abbot Eadred of Cumberland had dreamt of a likeness of Saint Cuthbert speaking to him from Heaven, asking for a Christian savior for northern England. He then pleaded with Knig Alfred to help free King Guthred, a Christian Dane, from the pagan brothers Erik and Sigefrid Thurgilsson, and Uhtred of Bebbanburg was sent to do so.